Family Work Quotes to Maintain Work Life Balance

“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” – Mother Teresa

“Family is the most important thing in the world.” – Princess Diana

“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” – Henry Ford

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” – Theodore Hesburgh

“My family’s the most important thing in my life.” – Joe Namath

“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.” – Lee Iacocca

“In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple.” – Laozi

“All around us, aspects of the modern world – diet, exercise, medicine, art, work, family, philosophy, economics, ecology, psychology – have begun a long circle back toward their former coherence. Whether they can arrive before the natural world is damaged beyond repair and madness destroys humanity, we cannot tell.” – Paul Shepard

“I don’t like the word ‘balance.’ To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family… as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration… of work, family, self, community.” – Padmasree Warrior

“Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls – family, health, friends, integrity – are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.” – Gary W. Keller

“Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other.” – Ellen Gilchrist

“Look, I get it. Whether it’s school, work, family, we’ve all got a lot on our minds. People say to me, “I’m just too busy to think about politics.” But here’s the thing: You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.” – Kerry Washington

“I feel vulnerable when I have no choice. It segues into every facet of life, whether it’s love, work, family, or conservation. Here it is: the whole reason that I started the Ian Somerhalder Foundation was the feeling of complete vulnerability during the BP oil spill.” – Ian Somerhalder

“There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.” – Alain de Botton

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” – Steve Jobs

“Work-family conflicts – the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child – would not be forced upon women with such sanguine disregard if men experienced the same career stalls caused by the-buck-stops-here responsibility for children.” – Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“Work-family conflicts – the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child – would not be forced upon women with such sanguine disregard if men experienced the same career stalls caused by the-buck-stops-here responsibility for children.” – Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“AERIN is saturated with the qualities that have surrounded me my entire life, many of which came from my grandmother, Estee: passion, style, hard work, family, and, of course, all things beautiful.” – Aerin Lauder

“You have to learn to balance work, family, a personal life; it is a part of life.” – Juanes

“The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work” – Steve Jobs

“All writers have roots they draw from – travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.” – Alan Lightman

“The most successful people I know create superior results yet still maintain a balance among work, family, and recreation in their lives.” – Jack Canfield

“Good Viking genes, being vegetarian and having rowdy dogs and kids definitely keep me in shape. Not eating meat gives me the energy I need to keep up with work, family and travel – I’m very active.” – Pamela Anderson

“We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this–through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication, we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime.” – Kay Redfield Jamison

“Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you’re keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls…are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.” – James Patterson

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In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don’t try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present. – Laozi